Yagouba Surname
Approximately 205 people bear this surname
Yagouba Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 187 | 1:111,065 | 12,922 |
| Ivory Coast | 9 | 1:2,563,470 | 41,100 |
| Niger | 7 | 1:2,741,717 | 49,802 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
Yagouba (2,819) may also be a first name.
Yagouba Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yagouba Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Yagouba (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻳﻌﻘﻮﺏ) is most common in Cameroon. It may be found as:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Yagouba? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,163,787th most prevalent family name throughout the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 35,549,004 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Yagouba reside; 73 percent reside in West Africa and 62 percent reside in Senegambia Africa. Yagouba is also the 137,278th most prevalent first name worldwide, borne by 2,819 people.
This surname is most widespread in Cameroon, where it is held by 187 people, or 1 in 111,065. In Cameroon it is mostly found in: Adamawa Region, where 86 percent reside, West Region, where 7 percent reside and Far North Region, where 3 percent reside. Besides Cameroon it occurs in 4 countries. It is also common in The Ivory Coast, where 4 percent reside and Niger, where 3 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Yagouba Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Yagouba in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻳﻌﻘﻮﺏ | yqwb | - |
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Yagouba
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